A westbound Rio Grande manifest follows the path carved by the Colorado River as it makes track speed at Una, Colorado.

Like many Rio Grande cabooses in this era, this one is showing evidence of years of service on coal trains and passing through many tunnels. Here it continues its streak on an eastbound coal train... (more)

Eastbound coal is making time on the Rio Grande as it glides through New Castle, Colorado.

The Rio Grande had full faith in its ability to get freight trains over the road in a timely fashion. Train 87 left Denver about an hour ahead of the Rio Grande Zephyr, and didn’t expect de... (more)

Solid Rio Grande consists were not common, but still possible to see in mid-2001. Power that had been assigned to Denver-Roper (Salt Lake City) trains in 2000 had now started to appear on the Joi... (more)

DRGW 683 is the only surviving Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad standard gauge engine. This 2-8-0 was built in 1890 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and ran freight in southern Colorado.

The Colorado Railroad Museum has restored DRGW 5401 (SD40-T2) to her true heritage, having removed any UP patches or decals. With the correct number boards and numbering on the side of the cab, i... (more)

Springtime thunderstorms gather over Tennessee Pass as a westbound Rio Grande freight descends the steep three-percent grade through the town of Red Cliff, Colorado, on the afternoon of May 24, 19... (more)

In the late 1980s, Rio Grande improved tunnel clearances on the Royal Gorge route over Tennessee Pass so doublestack trains could be operated. On May 24, 1991, a westbound Rio Grande stack train p... (more)

Rio Grande K-27 No. 463 sits inside the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s Chama, New Mexico, enginehouse on June 6, 2018. Outside on the north side tracks, C&TS K-36 Nos. 484 and 489 are readied ... (more)

This D&RGW westbound freight is roaring up the 1% grade of Cedar Hill just a couple of miles from Cedar Siding. The location is on Union Pacific's Green River Sub. in eastern Utah. Scanned from a ... (more)

Even after Union Pacific’s merger of Southern Pacific, for several years, locomotives for the West local out of Denver on the Moffat Tunnel route was a pair of Rio Grande GP30s. They ran west on T... (more)

It’s almost 9:00 p.m. on the evening of July 16, 1998, at Colorado’s Denver Union Station. Rio Grande EMD GP60s sit on one of the station tracks and are being used as protection power for the next... (more)

After helping a freight train on the eastern grade of Cumbres Pass, Rio Grande 2-8-2 K-27 No. 463 heads back to Chama light engine ahead of the freight on September 17, 1996. Snow is flying on top... (more)

Escaping even snowier weather at the summit of Cumbres Pass, a westbound Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad photo freight led by Rio Grande 2-8-2 K-37 No. 497 approaches Dalton, New Mexico, on a col... (more)